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I'm really not a big rereader - I'm too aware of my own ignorance.
The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.
The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution in the soul.
Over-certified adjectives are the mark of most best-seller writing
Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.
What is there about polarity that is matter becoming more complex?
I have tried my best to keep my country alive by writing about it.
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute.
Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.
You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven't died yet.
It's what I was born for, isn't it? If I don't go, why am I alive?
Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.
Once we have accepted the story we cannot escape the story's fate.
Life is a sandwich of activity between two periods of bed-wetting.
I find the public passion for justice quite boring and artificial.
Every industry has slack times, and everyone has bad days at work.
Unfunny people should be locked up, the key tossed into a smelter.
I have a paranoia that 'Ablutions' is the best thing I'll ever do.
We are always the most violent against those whom we have injured.
There is only one thing infamous in love, and that is a falsehood.
If stealing a few saltshakers was wrong I didn't want to be right.
Men astonish themselves far more than they astonish their friends.
To love is to know the sacrifices which eternity exacts from life.
Faults! I adore faults! I can never find too many in any creature.
Harold and Maude' is a film I just keep finding myself rewatching.
My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression.
When two people dream the same dream, it ceases to be an illusion.
Movies like 'Westworld' used ideas I'd thought of a long time ago.
Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.
And if my heart isn't in my mouth it's because it knows its place.
The best thing for the inside of a man, is the outside of a horse.
Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself.
A dead man is the best fall guy in the world. He never talks back.
I was neat, clean, shaved and sober and I didn't care who knew it.
You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off.
The youthful heart is ready to believe what it wishes will happen.
A fictionalised memoir of my father would be a failure as a novel.
That said, being dyslexic, I wasn't a great reader when I was kid.
Knowing and knowing what to do about it were two different things.
Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing.
We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
Come right up close to me and I will show you something wonderful.
People--stupid when they lived; potentially stupid when they died.
O wind, a-blowing all day long, O wind, that sings so loud a song!
The physician...is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization.
To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.